Ezra 3:5-7

New English Translation

⁵ Afterward they offered the continual burnt offerings and those for the new moons and those for all the holy assemblies of the Lord and all those that were being voluntarily offered to the Lord. ⁶ From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. However, the Lord’s temple was not at that time established.^[a]

Preparations for Rebuilding the Temple

⁷ So they provided money^[b] for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport^[c] at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.